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[cropgrower]

You missed the word socialist is referring to your arm chair opinion cc

[chuckChuck]

Well Crop, you are a full time arm chair expert on what? Antivax, gender and hate speech! LOL

[shtferbrains]

Steven Lewis is an expert on socialism?

Doesn't he go back to Allan Blakney and Roy Romano?

The suitcase for graduation days?

[chuckChuck]

If you hate socialized universal health care, nothing stopping you from using the US system Shite for brains. Take your credit card!

[AlbertaFarmer5]

It is always so much fun nudging Chuck into contradicting his own posts, and proving my point.

This was a discussion about Chuck wanting to socialize the housing industry. He pointed out that healthcare was already socialized, so why not housing.

I asked how socialized healthcare is working out.

And Chuck spent the next few pages showing us what a disaster that has been.

Mismatched supply and demand. Doctors in all the wrong places, not where they are needed. Perverse incentives having the opposite effect as intended. Ever expanding mandate consuming ever expanding portion of the economy. Dreadful levels of service.

Do you think it would be any different once you nationalize housing?

[shtferbrains]

That has nothing to do with my question.
Socialized medicine has been pretty good to me.

Was Steven Lewis one of uncle Al's go too guys?

[blackpowder]

Steven Lewis is the expert who can explain the needed changes he recommends.

The rest of us just have arm chair opinions.

And many doctors are on salary in hospitals, community and walk in clinics. Not all of them are incorporated running small businesses on their own.

In fact many of them don't want the administrative burden of their own practice. Nor do they all want to go into family practice. Many prefer to specialize.

There is a shortage of doctors for primary care. How are you going to fix it?

I almost but didn't like this.
Stephen Lewis doesn't appear to have any experience except in Ottawa.
And I believe many doctors wouldn't know how or want to bother owning more than a house and a car.
I admit I don't have a guaranteed answer and am happy to hear you admit the same.
I feel all that I hear is a cry for changing nothing except to do what we're doing now on a much larger scale.
But dialogue is a good start.
And it's not about lifestyle choice responsibility. We all get sick and die eventually. All we can do is wait our turn.
Like justice, medicine should be blind. And dialogue includes all ideas.

[blackpowder]

It is always so much fun nudging Chuck into contradicting his own posts, and proving my point.

This was a discussion about Chuck wanting to socialize the housing industry. He pointed out that healthcare was already socialized, so why not housing.

I asked how socialized healthcare is working out.

And Chuck spent the next few pages showing us what a disaster that has been.

Mismatched supply and demand. Doctors in all the wrong places, not where they are needed. Perverse incentives having the opposite effect as intended. Ever expanding mandate consuming ever expanding portion of the economy. Dreadful levels of service.

Do you think it would be any different once you nationalize housing?

Agreed.
Govt has been involved in housing incentives in the past, most notably post war. Still involved private industry. Seems to me Trump's father did very well. Although I don't foresee a post war budget any time soon.
It took several administrations to get here, it will take several to move on.
Any proclamation I hear from the Mount in Ottawa, red or blue, is just political mumbo jumbo for the masses in the East. Big deal about nothing.
People want govt housing, but don't want eventual slums. Cycle repeats.
Any talk of Hongcouver is more of the same without vast overhauls of generations of money laundering.
We shall see...... sarcasm intended.
BTW, all the barbers in town are open 7 days a week and cash only these days, huh.

[chuckChuck]

Again you guys offer no solutions! LOL

Just a lot of empty useless rhetoric coming from farmers who get "socialized" subsidies and support from taxpayers in the form of safety nets and investment in research and other support programs!

How do you spell hippo crits?

Steven Lewis

Health Policy and Research Consultant

Biography

Steven Lewis is a health policy and research consultant in Vancouver. Prior to resuming a fulltime consulting practice he headed a health research granting agency and spent 7 years as CEO of the Health Services Utilization and Research Commission in Saskatchewan. He has been an Adjunct Professor in the FHS since 2007, when he taught a graduate class in health policy.

He served on the National Forum on Health, the Governing Council of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Saskatchewan Health Quality Council, and the Health Council of Canada. He has been on the editorial boards of several journals, including the Journal of Health Services and Policy Research, Healthcare Policy, and Healthcare Papers. He writes and speaks frequently on topics such as the politics of health care, quality improvement, professional regulation, and equity in health and health care. He is currently a Board member and Treasurer of the Mid-Main Community Health Centre.


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[blackpowder]

I stand corrected, thank you.
However yet again another check casher.
Let's hear your input.